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. 2022 Aug 23;11(2):e37315. doi: 10.2196/37315

Table 1.

Summary of the intervention components (N=11).

Intervention Population and behavior Use parameters Delivery mode Behavior change technique Theory
Active for Life [43]
  • Older adults aged ≥65 years who did not meet the recommendations for PAa

  • PA

  • Duration of the intervention: 12 weeks

  • Duration of each session: NRb

  • Number of sessions: 6

  • Frequency: bimonthly

  • Automated function: tailored feedback on PA via the platform based on the participants’ characteristics

  • Communicative function: none

  • Additional modes: none

  • Instruction

  • Goal setting

  • Self-monitoring

  • Action planning

  • Prompts and cues

  • Rewards and relapse prevention

  • Social comparison

  • Feedback

  • Theory of planned behavior

  • Social cognitive theory

Active Plus [44,45]
  • Older adults aged ≥65 years who had at least one chronic disease that affects mobility and were able to walk 100 m without help

  • PA

  • Duration of the intervention: 4 months

  • Duration of each session: NR

  • Number of sessions: NR

  • Frequency: NR

  • Automated function: tailored advice on PA and feedback via email

  • Communicative function: none

  • Additional modes: list of local group activities

  • Instruction

  • Action planning

  • Coping planning

  • Commitment

  • Self-regulation

  • Feedback

  • Theory of planned behavior

  • Precaution adoption process

  • Integrated model for change

  • Self-regulation model

Active Plus 65 [46,47]
  • Older adults aged ≥65 years with an impairment in PA caused by a noncommunicable chronic disease

  • PA

  • Duration of the intervention: 4 months

  • Duration of each session: NR

  • Number of sessions: NR

  • Frequency: NR

  • Automated function: tailored advice on PA via email

  • Communicative function: none

  • Additional modes: list of local group activities and email

  • Instruction

  • Problem solving

  • Action planning

  • Coping planning

  • Awareness

  • Feedback

  • I-Change Model

  • Transtheoretical model

  • Self-determination theory

  • Self-regulation theory

  • Health action process approach

eMind [51,52]
  • Community-dwelling older adults aged ≥65 years who presented a subjective memory complaint without dementia

  • PA and nutrition

  • Duration of the intervention: 6 months

  • Duration of each session: NR

  • Number of sessions: NR

  • Frequency: free access

  • Automated function: tailored exercise program, nontailored nutritional advice, and website link to a cognitive training

  • Communicative function: chat with health professionals anytime and chat with a dietician for people at risk of nutritional deficiency

  • Additional modes: none

  • Instruction

  • Feedback

  • Self-monitoring with activity tracker

  • NR

Healthy Ageing Supported by Internet and Community [38]
  • Older adults aged ≥65 years

  • PA, nutrition, alcohol consumption, and social participation

  • Duration of the intervention: 10 weeks

  • Duration of each session: NR

  • Number of sessions: NR

  • Frequency: NR

  • Automated function: information on physical (food and drink), social (preventing loneliness), and emotional (eg, self-esteem and resilience) health and videos

  • Communicative function: chat forum

  • Additional modes: none

  • Instruction and self-monitoring

  • NR

HATICEc [12,19,20,48-50]
  • Older adults aged ≥65 years with high cardiovascular risk

  • Smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, weight, PA, and nutrition

  • Duration of the intervention: 18 months

  • Duration of each session: NR

  • Number of sessions: NR

  • Frequency: NR

  • Automated function: tailored lifestyle and cardiovascular feedback, electronic diary, educational content, and peer-to-peer videos

  • Communicative function: personal and automated feedback from a coach with the possibility to chat

  • Additional modes: 12-month phone call and list of local group activities

  • Instruction

  • Goal setting

  • Self-monitoring

  • Problem solving

  • Automated and personal feedback

  • Motivational interviewing

  • Transtheoretical model

  • Social cognitive theory

Life Project [42]
  • Prefrail older adults aged 74 to 91 years

  • PA

  • Duration of the intervention: NR

  • Duration of each session: NR

  • Number of sessions: NR

  • Frequency: NR

  • Automated function: healthy lifestyle and PA information, exercise videos, and the possibility to create a tailored program

  • Communicative function: none

  • Additional modes: list of local group activities

  • Instruction

  • Self-determination theory

MyPlan 2.0 [41]
  • Older adults aged 65 to 80 years able to walk 100 m without help

  • PA

  • Duration of the intervention: 5 weeks

  • Duration of each session: NR

  • Number of sessions: 5

  • Frequency: each week and free access

  • Automated function: information about PA, quiz about PA and benefits, and tailored feedback

  • Communicative function: none

  • Additional modes: email reminders

  • Instruction

  • Computer-tailored feedback

  • Goal setting

  • Problem solving

  • Action planning

  • Self-monitoring

  • Self-regulation theory

Otago [39,40]
  • Community-dwelling older adults aged ≥65 years who were not frail

  • PA

  • Duration of the intervention: 8 weeks

  • Duration of each session: 30 to 40 minutes

  • Number of sessions: 16

  • Frequency: 2 times per week

  • Automated function: exercise instruction and plan

  • Communicative function: possibility to communicate with a coach and peers

  • Additional modes: possibility to train with peers on the web

  • Instruction

  • Feedback

  • Self-monitoring

  • Verbal persuasion

  • NR

No name [37]
  • Inactive older adults aged ≥65 years

  • PA

  • Duration of the intervention: 2 months

  • Duration of each session: 5 minutes

  • Number of sessions: NR

  • Frequency: every day

  • Automated function: exercise instruction and examples through an embodied conversational agent

  • Communicative function: none

  • Additional modes: implementation of the intervention in a clinic waiting room for 12 months

  • Instruction

  • Self-monitoring

  • Feedback

  • Goal setting

  • Problem solving

  • NR

No name [36]
  • Older adults aged ≥70 years with self-reported impaired balance, able to rise from a high chair and stand without support, and not active

  • PA

  • Duration of the intervention: NR

  • Duration of each session: NR

  • Number of sessions: NR

  • Frequency: NR

  • Automated function: tailored PA information, exercise video, and diary

  • Communicative function: feedback from a physiotherapist, peer mentor meeting once a month, phone calls from a researcher after 2 to 3 weeks, and optional phone support

  • Additional modes: first meeting in group, phone call, and face-to-face meeting

  • Instruction

  • Action planning

  • Self-monitoring

  • Feedback from a therapist

  • NR

aPA: physical activity.

bNR: not reported.

cHATICE: Healthy Ageing Through Internet Counselling in the Elderly.